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the call of the farm. (Continued from Page Seven.) He was asked what chance he thought the city man had who undertook to farm. We quote: “If the average city boy would give up chores at the end of his first year and hike into the country, he eould, by application, make a success of farming. If he can take a course in an agricultural school so much the better. “I met a young fellow who two years ago was a newsboy. Today he is a prosperous Indiana farmer. The big chance for city men on the farm is in the South. North Carolina is ideal. Hundreds of acres of unde veloped land can be purchased rea sonably through the South. “In the Southern States transpor tation is good and getting better. Modern homes, with bath and water works, possibly with electric lights and trolley service, are not impossi ble.” By no means “impossible.” Sure ly such a prospect should prove allur ing to the city boy, or young man, working long hours for poor pay and with no more than the barest hope of advancement into comfortable com petency when old age shall come upon him. Why does the appeal not lure more men back to the soil? We hear much these days of the growth of the cities in South Caro lina and the South. That they are growing largely at the expense of the country population is beyond doubt. The census of 1910 will, we venture to predict, show that the increase of urban population has been far and away ahead of the increase in rural population. The trouble, we believe, is due largely to a misapprehension of con ditions of country life. The city man feels that if he leaves the city he must of necessity go out and “vege tate,” far from all sound and sense. But those to whom such a prospect is not pleasing have forgotten what the trolley, the telephone, the automobile, and the rural mail delivery have done to bring the farmer into inti mate contact with the life about him. There is too much misconception of conditions all round. The city man misconceives the conditions of mod em country life, and the countryman, on the other hand, misconceives the supposed allurements of urban exist ence. A campaign of education would help to bring about a desirable migration from city to country and would do much to hold on the farm those misguided youths who leave the freedom and health of the country for the chains and slavery of a $25-a --month clerkship in a city store. —Co- lumbia State. SAM HOUSTON’S INDIAN WIFE Mr. J. S. Holden, secretary of the Editorial Association of Indian Ter ritory, and editor of the Fort Gibson Post, has added some exceedingly in teresting facts to the story of Sam Houston and his Cherokee wife. We copy this extract from Mr. Holden’s article on the subject: “Wilson’s Rock is a beautiful spot on the Chero kee side of the Arkansas river, on a hill near the mouth of Skinbayou creek. Here, in a cedar grove, lived in a log cabin with his Chero kee wife, the former governor of Ten nessee and distinguished general. 1 was from here he started on horse back for Texas, of which State he be came the liberator and first governor. Tahlihina (his wife) is said to have been the most beautiful woman in the Cherokee tribe, and Houston was not ashamed of her. He wrote to have her join him in Texas, which she declined, saying she was an In dian and would not be happy among his white associates. It appears he really loved her and resolved to see her again in her forest abode had not death intervened. A half century and more than one score years have gone since the fair form of Tahlihina -was laid at rest beneath the cedar shade at Wilson’s Rock. During that time wonderful transformations have taken place in this Territory, now largely the abode of the white men and civilization— a wonderful change, indeed. And now these remains rest at Fort Gibson, in the United States National Ceme tery. The inscription on the tomb reads as follows: Sacred to the Memory of TAHLIHINA, Cherokee Wife of GEN. SAM HOUSTON, Liberator of Texas. Died at Wilson's Rock, C. N., In the Year 1838. Removed to Fort Gihson May 30, 1905. —Magazine of American History. * « Musical people are unreasonable. They want one to be perfectly dumb when one is yearning to be absolutely deaf. Brother Jeffersonian, Get up a Club and send it in at once. THE WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN ATLANTA GEORGIA Editors Weekly Jeffersonian: Please send send your paper to the following names and addresses as indicated: NAMES POST OFFICE STATE R. F. D. 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